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Sheaffer Snorkel Demonstrator-Short Review

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I already posted a thread telling about how bad I want the Sheaffer Snorkel Demonstrator.

Its such an important part of my collection that for me this is actualy a GRAIL pen.

http://i516.photobucket.com/albums/u330/alfa170a/Picture001-3.jpg

I was begging a friend to look at his collection and if he has one for sale and after a month that I didnt hear from him he sent me an email telling me his got a neat mint Demo for me.

http://i516.photobucket.com/albums/u330/alfa170a/Picture002-3.jpg

Well the price was great too but frankly this was not even important and I wanted it so bad I would have paid even more.

http://i516.photobucket.com/albums/u330/alfa170a/Picture003-3.jpg

A true Demonstrator is a pen designed to show you the working mechanism of a pen but not to showoff but rather to make you want the real pen in the store.

http://i516.photobucket.com/albums/u330/alfa170a/Picture004-2.jpg

Demonstrators were not pens to sell or use by private people and only today this trend cought on.

To me modern pens sold for use aint real Demonstrators they are simply transparent pens.

http://i516.photobucket.com/albums/u330/alfa170a/Picture005-2.jpg

This pen is a true pure Demonstrator and what better pen is there to show its guts then a Snorkel ?

The pen with the most complex filling mechanism ever design ?

http://i516.photobucket.com/albums/u330/alfa170a/Picture006-2.jpg

Well I think I will let the pictures do the talking.

I dont plan to send the pen to get fixed so it will be able to take ink.I dont plan to use at as this basicly a regular Snorkel and there is no need to risk using it while I have 25 fully functioning snorkels.

The Snorkel Demonstrator is prone to cracks so I will put no stress on this rare pen so I will be able to enjoy it for many years to come.

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Your pen collection is growing fast! Great new addition. However, I thought you didn't like demonstrators.

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Very nice review. I like this model of demonstrator because there is some substance underneath the shell. My Lamy Vista is really a clear pen- not much of a demonstrator- because c/c filling system really has no significant mechanics that are worth demonstrating. This Sheaffer pen really shows the most advanced filling system in action.

Great find! I really like it.

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Your pen collection is growing fast! Great new addition. However, I thought you didn't like demonstrators.

No I dont but its a Snorkel and thus I gotta have it.

This is a must for a serious Snorkel collector!!!

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Very nice review. I like this model of demonstrator because there is some substance underneath the shell. My Lamy Vista is really a clear pen- not much of a demonstrator- because c/c filling system really has no significant mechanics that are worth demonstrating. This Sheaffer pen really shows the most advanced filling system in action.

Great find! I really like it.

Thanks

It took me a long time untill I got my hands on this pen.

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It's really interesting to see how the internal spring change in the two positions. Your pictures are even better than Binder designs! (maybe you should have used a darker background).

I got a Snorkel and I really enjoyed the way the triumph nib writes.

 

Thanks for this insightful review.

 

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Thanks for the review. I just acquired my first Snorkel, an Admiral, a couple of weeks ago. It's off to our very own Ernst Bitterman for reconditioning as the seals were shot on it. However, the rest of the pen was immaculate and it shows very little use. I'm really looking forward to getting it back so that I can write with it. The pictures give a very clear indication of how the whole things works. I like them better than the animation on Richard Binder's site as that runs a bit fast for my taste. I love complex mechanisms and the Snorkel is the best example of such in the fountain pen world, hands down.

 

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Beautiful pen and I agree with you: a real demonstrator should have a real mechanism to display. Otherwise it's just a transparent pen.

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Very, very nice. Congratulations on filling this missing piece of your collection. Have you been able to date it?

 

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Thats very cool, wonder how it writes...

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